AVIATORS IN FILMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)

AVIATORS IN FILMS.

INTEREST IN FLYING PICTURES. Aviators have a better chance of steady employment at present than any other ciass of workers in Hollywood. There are several score actor-aviators among the thousands of "extras" in the film capital and they experience less unemployment than any others. Aeroplanes are being constantly utilised in the making of motion pictures, and, since the tremendous increa.se in interest in aviation caused by the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic flights, pictures, built around aeroplanes or having an aviation sequence are waxing in popularity. The cream of "aviation jobs,"' of course, were with "Wings," starring Miss Clara Bow, Charles Rogers and Richard Aden, which Paramount spent over a year making. This film will be presented with special_synchronisation of sound at all theatres and will be released hern shortly. The director, JWiJUam "YVeliman, and the author of the story, John Monk Saunders, are both aviators with war records, while Richard Arlen served as a lieutenant in the British Air Force during the war. • -